Morphometric changes in sympathetic nerve fibres in diabetes
Maiorana, A.; Cavallari, V.; Maiorana, M.C.; Fano, R.A.; Scimone, S.; Sannicola, C.
Functional Neurology 2(4): 589-592
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0393-5264 PMID: 3443386 Document Number: 293413
A morphometric study was carried out on electron micrographs of lumbar sympathetic nerve fibres surgically removed from 12 patients with arteriosclerosis obliterans: 4 diabetics, 4 non-diabetics and 4 subjects with glucose intolerance. In patients with diabetes and glucose intolerance a significant decrease in the percent area fraction of unmyelinated axons and an increase in the percent area fraction of the endoneurial space were demonstrated.